Overview
Amir Cheheltan's firebrand tale of power, corruption, and love, set against the roiling aftermath of the Islamic Revolution, opens an unforgettable trilogy of novels about everyday lives in contemporary Tehran. Fattah is a backstreet surgeon specialising in hymen repair -though it was working as an executioner in the notorious Evin prison that made him rich. When a beautiful young girl, Shahrzad, lands on his operating table, he becomes dangerously infatuated. Undeterred that she is already promised by her family to another man, he sets out to win her by any means. Robbed of his bride, the jilted and fanatical fiance attempts to use the regime's apparatus to win her back, a mission that takes him deep into Tehran's underworld of criminals and provocateurs. But once the powers of the state are unleashed, events gather a fateful momentum until none can escape their explosive collision.
Full Product Details
Author: Amir Cheheltan ,
Paul Sprachman (Rutgers University)
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781851689842
ISBN 10: 1851689842
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 06 March 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A classic of world literature. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A courageous, frank and poetic novel. - Thuringlan A vivid, exciting and nuanced portrait of post-revolutionary Tehran...From the opening paragraph it combines meticulous observation with an irony that mercilessly mocks the hypocrisy of the bigoted revolutionaries. - Literaturnachrichten Impressive - Die Zeit Rareley has a novel so exposed the moral erosion of Iran. The example of two henchmen of the mullahs' regime vying for the same woman, the beautiful Shahrzad, depicts what remains of the ideals of the Islamic revolution of 1979: fear, bigotry, and pure violence. Taz As a reader you do not want to identify with any character in the novel, but in the end, unresisting, you will. - Deuschland Radio An impressive tableau of his country. Suddeutsche Zeitung
'Rarely has a novel so exposed the moral erosion of Iran. The example of two henchmen of the mullahs' regime vying for the same woman, the beautiful Shahrzad, depicts what remains of the ideals of the Islamic revolution of 1979: fear, bigotry, and pure violence.' -- Taz 'A vivid, exciting and nuanced portrait of post-revolutionary Tehran.' -- LiteraturNachrichten 'A classic of world literature.' -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Author Information
A rising star in Iranian literature, Amir Cheheltan has published numerous novels and volumes of short stories in Iran, which have all undergone a number of revisions and re-publications due to censorship. His writings have been translated and published in ten languages. He currently supervises the literature workshop of the Karnameh Art & Cultural Centre in Tehran.
